Description
From enlightened cooking.
Ingredients
- Crisp Rice Cereal
- Quick-cooking Oats
- Ground Flax Seeds
- Dried Fruit
- Nuts
- Brown Rice Syrup
- Dark Brown Sugar
- Nut Butter
- Vanilla Extract
- Ground Cinnamon
Instructions
- Combine the rice cereal, oats, flaxseed meal, dried fruit, and nuts in a large bowl
- Bring the syrup and brown sugar to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly
- Remove from heat
- Stir in nut butter and vanilla until blended
- Pour nut butter mixture over cereal mixture, stirring until coated
- Press mixture firmly into an 8-inch square pan using a large square of wax paper
- Cool in pan on a wire rack
- Cut into 12 bars
- Variations:
- Chocolate chip cookie: replace the dried fruit with an equal amount of semisweet miniature chocolate chips
- Combine the cereal mixture with the syrup mixture, then let the combined mixture stand 10 minutes before adding the chips
- Peanut butter cookie: use chopped dates for the dried fruit and dry roasted peanuts for the nuts
- Use honey, or half honey-half molasses for the syrup and peanut butter for the nut butter
- Will you cherry me? use chopped dried tart cherries for the fruit and lightly salted roasted almonds for the nuts
- Use any nut butter (almond butter is great, but i know, very expensive, and add 1 / 4 teaspoon almond extract
- Apple pie: use chopped dried apples for the fruit and rice syrup or honey for the syrup
- Be sure to add the cinnamon option, and use toasted walnuts or pecans for the nuts